Note: I am SO SORRY that I haven't updated in so long but you know with finishing school I had a lot of Homework and studying to do and after that I went on vacation and didn't have a computer :'( So yet again I am very very very Sorry for not updating. Now that it's summer I can make it up. Here it goes Chapter 10!

A Brutal Detour

Sakura woke up a few hours later noticing she was still in the middle of the woods. "I better get back," she said to herself as she jumped from the tree. "Now which way did I come from?" she asked herself. She looked around and found out she didn't remember which way she had come. She hadn't really been paying attention to which way she was going. She stood still and closed her eyes. She tried to sense where the others where. She found something and so she started in that direction.

As she walked on everything around her seemed different. She didn't remember any of this. She could feel a power source close by, but she didn't know whos it was, so she kept going. Finally she could feel the power source as if it was right there with her. She was right on top of it. Or maybe the other way around. Sakura looked up and thought she saw something, but it had jumped out of her site. She jumped up to the tree and found nothing, but she knew someone else was there.

"Who's there?" she asked.

"Nice to see you noticed me," a voice said. A womans voice.

"What do you want?" Sakura said with a big sigh.

"I've heard a lot about you," the woman said, "And I'm quite interested in your abilities."

"Can I not get away from this," Sakura said to herself as she rubbed her head, "Okay come on down and test me,"

The woman jumped down. She was a full grown woman with long strawberry blonde hair. She had a lot of make-up on and her nails were long with red fingernail polish on them. Her outfit was rather unique. It was a good fighting outfit that had been torn at parts to make it more revealing. "Alright then, let's go."

Sakura got ready for her. And when the woman was ready she attcked, unlike all her other battles, but this time she just wanted it to end. Her fist went right into the womans chest, but it didn't seem to hurt her. "What?" Sakura asked as she jumped back.

"Ha," the woman laughed, "Your fist is'nt going to do much damage to someone like me."

Sakura didn't know exactly what to do. "If hand to hand combat isn't going to do it then i'll just slice her into a few pecies." Sakura took out her daggers and stood still. This time she would wait.

The woman seemed amused by all this so she attcked Sakura first this time. Sakura dodged and chopped the womans arm off. The woman turned around to look at Sakura. "That almost hurt," she said as her arm grew back.

Sakura was stunned, she didn't know what else she could do. She fought her with all her might, but everytime she cut something off or made a hole in the woman, she would just grow it back or the hole would be healed.

"Okay think Sakura. What can you do? There has to be a way to kill her."

Sakura was thinking so hard she didn't notice the woman coming twords her. The woman hit her so hard she flung into a tree and went halfway through it.

"I was made to be the best and strongest fighter and her this lone woman is beating me!" Sakura yelled she was getting quite mad. She went after the woman cutting, kicking, doing anything she could, but nothing worked. She had no idea how to beat this woman.

"I thought you were suppose to be difficult." The woman said as she stood over Sakura's tired body. But Sakura wasn't done yet. She went after her again, but the woman simply hit her a far way off.

"I can't beat her," Sakura said to herself. All of a sudden an image popped into her head. The womans head had been cut off. Sakura blinked a few times, "Alright if that's what I have to do." She picked herself up and went twords the woman.

"You don't know when to give up do you?" The woman asked, "I have to admitt, I like your attitude."

Sakura didn't say anything, she just crossed her daggers up in the air and ran twords the woman. She jumped on her, knocking her to the ground. The crossed daggers were placed at her neck. "What's your name?" she asked.

"Richelle," the woman answered.

"Good bye Richelle," Sakura said as she sliced the womans head off. Sakura waited, the head didn't grow back. "I wonder.." Sakura said.

She stood up and started walking a different way. She knew how she had gotten the image, the question more on her mind was why she had gotten it. She knew she would have to thank him once she got back. _________________________________________________________________

Well? What did you think? I haven't gotten rusty have I? I hope not. Yet again I'm sorry for you know what but I WILL MAKE IT UP. I promise. Please review.